Nice one Brian.
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Nice one Brian.
That little journal looks like a real treasure, Brian, with sketches and drawings to highlight it. Lovely cover, too.
Aden never seems to change much over the century
PHOTOS STORED IN AN OLD BROWNIE CAMERA
Thought you might find these photo's very interesting, what quality from 1941.
Pearl Harbor Photos found in an old Brownie stored in a foot locker
THESE PHOTOS ARE FROM A SAILOR WHO, WAS ON THE USS QUAPAW ATF-11O.
I THINK THEY'RE SPECTACULAR!
PEARL HARBOR
December 7th, 1941
Pearl Harbor
On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the U.S. Forces stationed at Pearl Harbor , Hawaii . By planning his attack on a Sunday, the Japanese commander Admiral Nagumo, hoped to catch the entire fleet in port. As luck would have it, the Aircraft Carriers and one of the Battleships were not in port. (The USS Enterprise was returning from Wake Island, where it had just delivered some aircraft. The USS Lexington was ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the USS Saratoga and USS Colorado were undergoing repairs in the United States.)
In spite of the latest intelligence reports about the missing aircraft carriers (his most important targets), Admiral Nagumo decided to continue the attack with his force of six carriers and 423 aircraft. At a range of 230 miles north of Oahu, he launched the first wave of a two-wave attack. Beginning at 0600 hours his first wave consisted of 183 fighters and torpedo bombers which struck at the fleet in Pearl Harbor and the airfields in Hickam, Kaneohe and Ewa. The second strike, launched at 0715 hours, consisted of 167 aircraft, which again struck at the same targets.
At 0753 hours the first wave consisting of 40 Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" torpedo bombers, 51 Aichi D3A1 "Val" dive bombers, 50 high altitude bombers and 43 Zeros struck airfields and Pearl Harbor Within the next hour, the second wave arrived and continued the attack.
When it was over, the U.S. losses were:
Casualties
USA : 218 KIA, 364 WIA.
USN: 2,008 KIA, 710 WIA.
USMC: 109 KIA, 69 WIA.
Civilians: 68 KIA, 35 WIA.
TOTAL: 2,403 KIA, 1,178 WIA.
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Battleships
USS Arizona (BB-39) - total loss when a bomb hit her magazine.
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) - Total loss when she capsized and sunk in the harbor.
USS California (BB-44) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.
USS West Virginia (BB-48) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.
USS Nevada - (BB-36) Beached to prevent sinking. Later repaired.
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) - Light damage.
USS Maryland (BB-46) - Light damage.
USS Tennessee (BB-43) Light damage.
USS Utah (AG-16) - (former battleship used as a target) - Sunk.
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Cruisers
USS New Orleans (CA-32) - Light Damage..
USS San Francisco (CA38) - Light Damage.
USS Detroit (CL-8) - Light Damage.
USS Raleigh (CL-7) - Heavily damaged but repaired.
USS Helena (CL-50) - Light Damage.
USS Honolulu (CL-48) - Light Damage..
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Destroyers
USS Downes (DD-375) - Destroyed. Parts salvaged.
USS Cassin - (DD-37 2) Destroyed. Parts salvaged.
USS Shaw (DD-373) - Very heavy damage.
USS Helm (DD-388) - Light Damage.
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Minelayer
USS Ogala (CM-4) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.
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Seaplane Tender
USS Curtiss (AV-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired.
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Repair Ship
USS Vestal (AR-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired.
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Harbor Tug
USS Sotoyomo (YT-9) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.
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Aircraft
188 Aircraft destroyed (92 USN and 92 U.S. Army Air Corps.)
Fantastic Zap. nice one.
I was e.mailed those picrures a while back Zap and I was amazed at the quality of them . It was an old box Brownie with which they were taken and I find that hard to believe. I owned a Brownie in the fifties and the quality of the snaps I took never came close to the quality of those. It must have been a high speed film ,look at those explosions, every spark has been captrured. Is this a hoax? I'd love to know the truth. Or were Kodak selling second rate film over here?
What does Joe think ?
BrianD
They do look a bit too good.Quote:
Originally Posted by brian daley
Hi Brian,
Did you ever come across this old girl, the Troopship "DILWARA". I sailed to Cyprus on her last voyage as a troopship in September 1960. Formerly owned by the British India Steam Navigation Co, she was sold to the China Navigation Co and renamed "KUALA LUMPA".
The trip took two weeks so we were starting to get a tan by the time we arrived. The accomodation wasn't anything to shout about, narrow bunks in the forward hold.
Thats me on the left of the ph
Harbourm
I see your knees are not yet brown Harby.
It is 1960, the Daily Express is reporting on Patrice Lumumba of the Congolese Comunist revolution, He ended up assassinated and then the Soviets named the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow after him. They taught urban and guerrila warfare and industrial sabotage.
Good photo of ther Dilwarra. I have saved it in my collection of ships. I saw her quite a few time out east.
Cheers
Brian.
Re, Pearl Harbour, I went there two years ago and sailed across to the Arizona wreck and memorial, It seemed strange standing over all those dead sailors still inside there. I noticed that after all those years oil was still bubling out of the wreck.
The photos were excellent. I have seen them before and the quality is very profesional
There are some who think that youg photographer must have hot-footed it all over Pearl Harbor that day, in order to capture so many different shots from so many different locations. Never-the-less, they are welcome additions to what we have already seen of the "day in infamy."
do you have names of the other guys in this picture ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Harbourm
Ships Gallery
Autumn is full on and it is time to look at some more ships pictures
This is the passenger liner Orcoma, built in 1908 by Wm. Beardmore & co. of Glasgow for the South American West Coast service of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. During the First World War she served as an Armed Merchant Cruiser on the Northern Patrol, maintaining the seaward blockade of Imperial Germany, and she was evbentually broken up at in Blyth in 1933.
This study is by Ben A. Carrier,who is thought to have lived and worked in Liverpool . There are no biographical details and only two other known works by this artist
BrianD
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This is the Circassian Prince of 1869. She was the first tanker to be built by C.S.Swan & Hunter of Wallsend , and only the second in a fleet of many to be owned to be owned by James, later Sir James, Knott of Newcastle, founder of what was to become the great ,and celebrated, Prince Line.
Sold in 1902 ,to the first of two successive owners,Circassian Prince ended her days in 1922 ,when she was towed out to sea and scuttled off the coast of northern Peru.
In this study ,by one of the several collective studios in Hong Kong of Chinese ship-portrait artist’s ,Circassian Prince is shown wearing the Prince Line house-flag at the stem and miozzen, at her bridge halyards four flagsL.S.N.V. of her identification hoist in the Commercial Code of Signals then in force and, at her mainmast ,the house flag of the Royal Dutch Oil Company ,to whom she was on charter,
BrianD
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The Antrim
This is the twin screw steamship Antrim,built by John Brown&Company of Clydebank in 1904 for the Midland Railway Company . This was the first of 4 vessels,near sister- ships, to inaugurate a nightly service to Belfast from their then newly developed port at Heysham. She also did the summer run between Heysham and Douglas (IOM) .During the First World War she was requisitioned for trooping across the the Channel and was sold in 1928 to the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co., who renamed her Ramsey Town and employed her in their own service between Douglas and Heysham.. She was sold to a breakers yard in 1936.
This portrait was by an amateur artist Arthur Knowles.
BrianD
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When I first laid eyes on this little craft , my first thought was that it might be a fishing boat,I was wrong. This is an iron steam lighter,named Number twelve,which was built in 1878 by H. Murray & Co. Ltd of Port Glasgow for thew Carron Company of Carron,near Falkirk. In 1922, following 44 years spent principaly carrying transhipment equipment along the Forth & Clyde Canal between Grangemouth and Port Dundas,she was laid up at Carron, but three years later she was acquired by owners in Hull, to whomshe rendered another 15 years service before being broken up in 1940.
This portrait was the work of an amateur artist A.George who was probably a crew member,shows the Number Twelve on its bow. She is at sea and is using her weathered sail to augment the propulsion of her 2 cylinder,16 horse power engine,
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